Well did my first ride and it was a 55 mile ride through a wide variety of terrain, every muck hole I could find, some hill climbing & some rocky obstacle course stuff then finished with a jaunt down the old RR bed which is just about as good or better then a lot of our tar roads here-lol. The muddy stuff they didn't clog up that easy and the one time they did they cleaned them selfs out with a snap of the throttle and a lot of stuff that before I required 4x4 to go through I was able to do in 4x2, hill climbing & the obstacle course stuff they did awesome in but what surprised me the most was how smooth riding they were on the RR bed, no humming like I expected and steering was light, responsive and predictable. I am really curious now as to how they will wear longevity wise but times the only answer to that. Overall in my opinion they are going to be hard to beat for the price if they wear well. I hope this answers most of the questions about them, I know I'm happy with them and if they wear well will buy them again.--------------Oh I forgot to add this-I got 25x8x12 fronts and they have 3/4" lugs & 25x11x10 rears and they have a full 1" lug, for some reason out of all the Swamp Lites 25" down to the 22" series the 11" wide are the only ones to have a 1" lug the rest are 3/4. Sizes and info---> http://www.intercotire.com/site97.php

 

Thanks for the info. Since I have a sticky swamp to cross, I hope these tires will do well, considering I already ordered them....lol.

 

Is that a Polaris? They're the only ones I'm familiar with that used to have 25x11x10 rear tires. A lot of others only had 10" wide rears. I wonder why they're the only ones with taller lugs? Wider and taller is always better IMO.

 

JB its a 99 500 magnum 4x4, yep in 25" and down the 11 wides are 1" lug but did you see the difference in weight? a 25x11x10 is 28lbs and the 25x10x11 is 22lbs - 6lbs is a big difference between the 2 don't you think. Since I put them on I done about 150 miles and have absolutely no complaints and wouldn't hesitate to buy again, though it is killing me wondering just how quick they are going to wear, I was on Highlifter.com reading in the tire section all the different posts and some say they wear real well & others say real quick--I guess its all going to be the terrain that makes the difference, time will tell.

 

Other people are saying good things about them too. I didn't know about the weight difference. 6 pounds for 1 more inch seems like a lot, but it wouldn't bother me because a 500 can use even bigger tires with no problems. I always liked the fact that Polaris tires are usually 1" wider than the others. It helps spread out the weight. You can put 26" tires on without any modifications at all, but most are for 12" wheels front and back.

 

Yep I like my 500 it is small enough that its fuel economic yet still has good power, all my riding covers a real wide variety of conditions every time I go out and I been keeping track of my MPG and it seems it don't matter if I'm cruising down the old RR bed or creeping through the technical stuff I been averaging roughly 25-28mpg and with the price of gas that suits me just fine.----Hey I see your in Michigan do you sled? and is MI like ME, we get to use a good amount of our state snowmobile trails for ATVing?, because of this we can really cover some territory which in turn allows you to have access to a wide variety terrain to play in.

 

I don't sled and haven't for a lot of years. Many trails are only 50" wide or so, and just for ATVs and dirt-bikes. Some sled trails are open to ATVs except Dec.-Mar. Some trails are for cars and ATVs. Some are cars and sleds. Some are for cars, sleds, and ATVs. There are horse trails zig-zagging around them too. We have every kind of trail you can think of but most of the sled trails are closed to ATVs. We still have over 3,000 miles for ATVs so we don't complain too much. A few roads have opened up between trails so you can make loop that takes longer than a day to finish. In the U.P. you can ride the forest roads anywhere that isn't posted closed. Some of the trails up there are old RR grades and at least one goes 75 miles in a straight line almost to Wisconsin. In the lower penninsula you can only ride on trails that are posted open. It's like two whole states, each with a different rule.

 

Thats kind of how Maine is set up, we have the old narrow gauge rr beds,logging or tote roads and just plain old person cut trails. Usually the snowmobile trail signs are in red ink and atv are in green, in winter unless marked as a atv trail you'll get your a** chewed/or a ticket depending on who catches you, come summer not all ITS trails(snowmobile) stay open to atv's, due to farming and other various reasons and the ones that do-allow horses,bicycles,joggers and the like, once you get out in the boonies though its atvs and horses for the most part because your so far out. To go 4 wheeling with a jeep/trk we have thousands of miles of logging roads. The state does maintain some of the snowmobile&atv trails and then some trails are maintained by town clubs(atv/snowmobile), when we register say a sled, half the money goes back to the town club for trail maintenance, our problem is not every town has a atv club so those that do usually have to take care of multiple towns trails, where almost every town has a snowmobile club unless its a township or unorganized township-which could be just numbers on a map for fire location purposes. So other then a lot of mountains it seems we have kind of the same setup.